Rockstar Games is currently focusing efforts on supporting their most recent release, Red Dead Redemption, but demand is picking up for details on a new GTA. The next year will also see the release of 3 other major titles — Max Payne 3, L.A. Noire, and Agent

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This month, October 22nd to be exact, marks the 10 year anniversary of the release of Grand Theft Auto III. For most who had played the game around then will remember how truly special and different this game was - whether it was the amazing story missions such as Bomb da Base, managing to fly the Dodo, or just cruising the map listening to the in-game radio, which featured Lazlow's Chatterbox and great tracks such as "Rush Rush".

To mark the occasion, Rockstar today announced that the original game will be releasing this Fall (most likely on or around October 22nd) on several mobile devices. The current line-up of devices is listed below, though more support for other devices are said to be announced later on by the company.

Additionally, the company is releasing a limited edition action figure of Claude, the game's main character. Those who are old school enough will find it interesting that Rockstar is actually mentioning the name of the character, as he officially never had a name and this topic was once part of a big debate.

We are excited to announce the launching of our latest Community site, L.A. Noire Precinct, that covers the newly released game by Rockstar. So please take a moment to drop by and see what is going on over at the Precinct. While there be sure to check out the L.A. Noire Wiki section for all your needs. There will also be extensive guides, screenshots and editorials. Check it out!

This weekend brought this year's Comic Con convention to New York City. Although New York's annual gathering is not quite as famous as its San Diego counterpart, there were still days worth of things to visit, experience and play. Video games are not as large of a component in the New York convention, but there were at least a few interesting demos for anyone who loves gaming. Beyond the games, there were many authors, artists and celebrities greeting and talking with the visitors.

Rockstar Games may not have had any new games at this year's show, but that didn't stop them from having one of the larges booths at this year's show. The Rockstar presence this year was devoted entirely to a single new offering — The Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare pack. Unfortunately, photography was not allowed within their walled-off booth, but there were plenty of demo stands available, allowing visitors to play through a demo of the upcoming DLC.

The demo puts John Marston in the middle of a graveyard equipped with a variety of weapons and tasked with burning 5 exposed coffins and taking on the crowds of zombies rising from the ground. Slaughtering the undead with torches and Marston's various guns adds a new and interesting dimension to the Red Dead Redemption experience. The Blunderbuss, in particular, definitely fits the exciting and over-the-top experience that Rockstar is clearly aiming to bring to RDR. Seeing zombies explode in a splash of blood is quite a sight to see!

Rockstar also one-upped nearly every other company at the show with their hand-outs and the fan gear being offered for free. Red Dead Redemption posters, stickers, t-shirts and playing cards were available for fans who were willing to put in a small amount of effort to obtain them. Various Rockstar employees were on hand to help out with the demos, greet fans and hand out their various offerings. With Rockstar giving this much attention to a simple DLC pack, we can only imagine what they will pull out for their upcoming games and future GTA games. For various pictures from around the convention, check out the images below.

The Rockstar booth was encased by walls with giant images of the Undead Nightmare artwork. Within these walls were many demo stands to play the upcoming pack and discuss them with the Rockstar Games staff.

Another month has ended and we've yet to hear anything on a new Grand Theft Auto. What we have gotten, instead, are rerelease details for older GTA games and a continued focus on expanding Red Dead Redemption through downloadable content. If you're a fan of the Mac or iPad, you might have been excited with this month's announcements, but if not, there was not much GTA news for you to get excited about. Red Dead Redemption fans, on the other hand, have seen several exciting additions. If you already own Read Dead Redemption, these are definitely addons that are worth looking into. Check out the trailer for the new Undead Nightmare pack if you want to see something completely different.

Rockstar games is continuing to see interest in it's many projects, but the biggest question of the year has continued to go unanswered...

Where is Grand Theft Auto V?

It's a question that all sorts of groups are asking, but nobody seems able to answer. The one thing we do know is that it takes a tremendous amount of effort to develop a Grand Theft Auto game, and Rockstar already has it's resources stretched thin on other projects. With Max Payne 3, L.A. Noire and Agent, all currently in development, it's difficult to see where Rockstar could find time to develop a new GTA title. Rockstar San Diego, who recently completed Red Dead Redemption, might be able to reasonably move on with a project like this. Major GTA games have typically been handled by the Rockstar North development house, but with their release of Agent looking further and further away, it just might make the most sense to pass a new GTA project on to Rockstar San Diego. After the way they proved themselves with Red Dead Redemption, why not give them a crack at it?

In the end, we have no details and this is all just speculation. We're even seeing industry analysts jumping into this game with strange assumptions that seem to have nothing backing them up. As mentioned at the above link, we've already seen how wrong these predictions can be after many assumed that GTA V would be showcased at this year's E3. That, of course, proved entirely wrong and we actually ended up seeing almost no presence from Rockstar at that show.

As always, drop us a comment if you think you've got things figured out. Since this is all just a guessing game, your's is as good as any other. Who knows... as GTA fans, we might actually be able to figure out more than these supposed industry insiders.

As the Summer continues to roll on, we're still not seeing much news on the Grand Theft Auto front. Though you can count on PlanetGTA to bring you the big updates as they break, for now, we may all want to focus our attention on Rockstar's other offerings. Remember that you can check out the Rockstar News Wire for information on all of their upcoming games, DLC and online multiplayer events. For all of us Red Dead Redemption fans, the upcoming DLC packs are definitely worth checking out and there are always the multiplayer events for RDR and GTAIV.

For now, these offerings will have to suffice, but it seems likely that we'll get more GTA details later in the year. Follow PlanetGTA and we'll make sure you know as soon as we know.

Yesterday's earnings announcement from Take-Two may have been good news for the company, but it looks like they've already lost any reason to celebrate. Less than a day after the announcement, the company saw it's stocks slide more than 7% over the course of the day. This news, however, may actually help us get a Grand Theft Auto V sooner than many of us expected. The downturn came as a result of increasing uncertainty from investors who are looking for news about the publisher's biggest brand.

"There is a hesitation to own the stock without more information about GTA," said Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey. "If we don't hear anything in the next few months, then doubts start to creep in."

The stock will surely rebound in the coming days, but you can bet that this news means Rockstar will face more demands to release some details on a new GTA game. It's one thing for the fans to be clamoring for a new release, but you've really got to take it seriously when your publisher starts to feel the pressure and turns their sights to you.

Three big pieces of information came out of today's investor call with Take-Two Interactive — Red Dead Redemption is a huge success, the multiplatform release of Episodes From Liberty City has helped turn around the company's 2nd quarter and Max Payne 3 has been delayed until at least the end of the year.

In just 3 weeks, RDR has already sold over 5 million copies, which puts it over a million units ahead of the number that analysts had estimated would be required for Take-Two to break even. Even with the results from this quarter not factoring in the success of RDR, the company still managed to outperform expectations with stronger-than-expected sales from Bioshock 2, Episode from Liberty City and Major League Baseball 2K10. Somewhat buried in this story was another huge number for Take-Two. GTA IV has now hit a total of 17 million units sold worldwide. Definitely a strong indicator of continued success for their biggest brand!

"Our better than expected second quarter results reflect the solid performance of our triple-A titles and continued strength of our catalog business," said Strauss Zelnick, chairman of Take-Two.

Details on the Max Payne 3 delay were not provided. We know that the release won't come until at least the new fiscal year in November, but it was not confirmed if the title could even be pushed all the way into 2011. Other Take-Two titles, L.A. Noire, Civilization V and Mafia II, remain on track for their releases later this year.

It seems that we won't be getting any big news out of Rockstar at E3 this year, according to a recent news item from computerandvideogames.com. Rumors of a GTA V and other big announcements about current Rockstar projects are starting to pick up, but the company has kept tight lips about everything beyond the recent rollout of Red Dead Redemption. It seems that they will hold off until future events or press invitations to their corporate offices.

A company spokesperson told CVG that instead it will be focusing on scheduling its own dedicated press rounds at its headquarters in the coming weeks.

"In the end, we feel we simply don't have enough time to show as much as we would like in the time available," a spokesperson said. Rockstar was planning to show Max Payne 3 and LA Noire at the show.

Red Dead Redemption has been out for a couple of days now, but there may be some of you who are still on the fence about making the purchase. If you haven't checked out all of the major reviews, you may get that extra push from the IGN video review or by reading some of the excerpts from the other reviews below.

Red Dead Redemption is a must-play game. Rockstar has taken the Western to new heights and created one of the deepest, most fun, and most gorgeous games around. You can expect the occasional bug or visual hiccup, but you can also expect a fantastic game that offers the Western experience we've all been waiting for. Red Dead Redemption is a complete game in every sense -- both the single player and multiplayer modes are excellent -- and still manages to offer an attention to detail you rarely see from a game of this scope.

The fact of the matter is, this is a game that you really need to play (hell, just watching someone play might be enough) to appreciate. With Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar succeeds in creating one of the most impressive open worlds I've ever seen in a game, and it's telling that -- even after playing for over 30 hours -- all I want to do is get back on my horse and gallop back into the wilderness.

Red Dead Redemption sets the bar for all future genre efforts and it gives players the chance to participate in their very own Spaghetti Western that includes a wild cast of characters, epic wild west showdowns, a score that would make Ennio Morricone proud, an absurdly expansive frontier to explore, and a wonderfully enjoyable multiplayer experience that will have players forming posses and battling bandits for some time. It’s going to take a lot to top this one. Even if you’re not a fan of Westerns, there’s still plenty here to enjoy. Red Dead Redemption is one of 2010’s best games.

Red Dead is a great game to climb into and just live for a while, and that's everything I wanted. In fact, I'm actually feeling pretty annoyed that I'm not wandering around in there right now. Stupid videogame reviews. There are herds to save, outlaws to kneecap, frontier ladies to rescue, random strangers to tie up and drop off a cliff for no reason, and sunsets that need riding off into.

Although this is said of almost every single new Rockstar product, Red Dead Redemption is arguably their best effort to date, if only because it distills all of the lessons they've learned from their previous titles into an engaging, expansive, and enthralling world. But the best part of Rockstar's open-world oater is its honest and open appreciation for the iconic Western genre; Its Wild West setting is memorable and stays true to established genre lore while still managing to add its own wrinkles and twists. It's one of the most appealing game worlds I've experienced in my recent memory, and it holds enough thrills to keep you playing from the very first bullet to long after the ride off into the sunset.

To succeed where other Western games have failed, Red Dead Redemption deftly recreates a sandbox playground of a tumultuous historical period swept away by technological progress. The game perfectly captures the expansiveness of frontier life and the gritty gunplay of spaghetti westerns, rightfully earning its place alongside the great Western films and the best Rockstar games.

The result is an exceptional Rockstar game, one that successfully re-clothes the Grand Theft Auto framework in an exciting, distinct and expertly realised scenario. But just how satisfying the formula remains after the exuberant destructiveness of Red Faction: Guerrilla, or the joyful, ad-hoc player stories born in the freedom of Just Cause 2's playpen, is increasingly under scrutiny. And even within Rockstar's own canon, there is little here for that smart young journalist to inform Liberty City about that it didn't already know. A magnificent eight, then.

There may not be a new GTA game coming out for a while, but Rockstar fans are definitely gearing up for the upcoming release of Red Dead Redemption later this month. If you're planning to pick up a copy of the game when it's released on the 18th, you may want to check out the pre-order deals from Amazon, Gamestop, Best Buy and Walmart. Along with previously announced pre-order bonuses, these retailers are now pushing harder than ever to get your purchase by offering gift cards worth as much as $20. It's certainly worth considering for those of us who can't afford to sink $60 on every game that comes along. So what do you guys think? Which pre-order exclusive / price deal will be getting your vote?

We are excited in announcing the launching of our latest site, Halo Ring, for the mega-series by Bungie. So please take a moment to drop by and see what is going on over at the Ring. While there be sure to check out the Halo Ring Wiki section for all your needs and maybe add a bit of your knowledge while you are there. There will also be extensive beta coverage with guides, screenshots and editorials. Time to suit up!

Rockstar has announced their first video contest in a new series for the recently released Episodes from Liberty City.

Strap on a parachute in The Ballad of Gay Tony and use the PC version's in-game suite of video editing tools to make the most creative contest entry clip you can. A balls-out short action film? A base jumping commercial? An aerial music video? A creative montage of parachute stunts? We know you'll amaze and surprise us as always.

The possibilities are endless. Just make sure it's at or under 5 minutes in length, and somehow, someway – parachuting or base jumping features prominently.